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OpenText Project and Portfolio Management pros and cons

Vendor: OpenText
3.9 out of 5

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PROS

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management provides trusted and readily available data, crucial for tool success.
Its portfolio and resource management features are highly comprehensive and valued among customers.
The workflow engine in Micro Focus PPM offers significant flexibility, allowing for complex workflow creation and process modeling.
Customization from an admin perspective is straightforward, with enhancements anticipated in future versions.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management's integrated modules offer detailed management across portfolios, projects, and financials, along with efficient automated resource calculations.

CONS

Reporting in OpenText Project and Portfolio Management is limited and often requires external platforms like Tableau and QlikView.
Portfolio scenarios are powerful but limited to analyses, restricting project approval capabilities.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management can be inflexible and lacks features, requiring additional requests for deployment.
OpenText Project and Portfolio Management faces issues with stability, sometimes requiring interventions beyond partner vendors.
The database dependency on Oracle is seen as a negative, with suggestions to move away from it for improvement.
 

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management Pros review quotes

AM
Sr. Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 24, 2017
The data provided by PPM is trusted and is available almost immediately; without trusted data there is very less scope of any tool to be successful.
it_user671394 - PeerSpot reviewer
Resource manager
Jun 7, 2017
The portfolio management and the resource management are the key features.
it_user677724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager / Consultant / Global presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Jun 4, 2017
Resource management: The resource management module is very complete and covers most of the time all needs of customers.
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it_user704031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director Benelux at a tech services company
Jul 17, 2017
Recent Program Management lifecycle, Program Management aggregation views due to interactive UI (selection of risks, issues, and changes in Program Overview) and “flash look & feel" of this functional chunk, which is different in comparison to other parts of HPE PPM.
it_user705723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Budget Management at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 19, 2017
Scenario comparison is the feature most valuable to us and the reason why we decided to choose HPE PPM over other portfolio management products.
ManagerAf569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager application development at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2017
There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management.
Islam Bayraktar - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder and Director of Services at Continuous Software at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 5, 2022
Has a powerful workflow engine that allows creation of workflow complexities and processes.
Attila Mozes - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at provalida GmbH
Apr 25, 2022
Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine.
reviewer1905414 - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM SaaS Application Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Jul 5, 2022
I like the ease of customization from an admin perspective. I'm really excited about some of the things that are coming in version 10.0.3 as far as what admins are able to do.
reviewer2027955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 18, 2022
Overall, they have a very strong workflow management capability. That's a very strong feature because then you can model any process easily. Whether it is a demand management process, a pipeline management process, or your project delivery methodology, it is much easier because of their workflow management capability.
 

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management Cons review quotes

AM
Sr. Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 24, 2017
Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc.
it_user671394 - PeerSpot reviewer
Resource manager
Jun 7, 2017
I was not involved in the initial setup. I know that the project involved a lot of consulting that took a long time.
it_user677724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager / Consultant / Global presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Jun 4, 2017
Portfolio scenarios: This is a very powerful feature. However, it’s limited to analyses.
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it_user704031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director Benelux at a tech services company
Jul 17, 2017
Currently, HPE PPM does not allow “Project” approval, but only simple “Demand Request” approval (mobility).
it_user705723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Budget Management at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 19, 2017
User interface continues to be poor. The product does not have a similar view in the different modules, e.g., staffing vs financial management, it looks like you are working with a different product and it is not easy to use or intuitive.
ManagerAf569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager application development at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 19, 2017
We constantly put in requests for some of the things we need. One of those is being able to export just our standard request type to PDF.
Islam Bayraktar - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder and Director of Services at Continuous Software at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 5, 2022
The solution can sometimes be a little inflexible and a bit caustic.
Attila Mozes - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at provalida GmbH
Apr 25, 2022
The user interface is very, very old and is missing some functions, such as, for example, re-do, follow, and share functions. The UI is not good.
reviewer1905414 - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM SaaS Application Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Jul 5, 2022
We had a couple of issues with stability or performance degradation about a year ago, around the time of the initial rollout. Since then, we've only had two unexpected outages that were quickly resolved.
reviewer2027955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 18, 2022
They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky.